Erika Jayne on Being Labeled 'RHOBH's 'Villain' and Her 'Complex Situation' in Season 12 (Exclusive)
11.05.2022 - 19:25
/ etonline.com
Erika Jayne famously proclaimed she gave «zero f**ks» years ago, but fast-forward to 2022, a pending divorce and a somewhat never-ending legal battle involving her estranged husband's alleged wrongdoings on her plate, and the star says she's fully giving a f**k or two these days.«I do care,» she tells ET over video call, «but here's what: I also wanted to have a good time. I've been under what feels like a lot of pressure to me for a very long time.
And I wanted to enjoy myself and have a few drinks and have a few laughs. And of course, here comes the judgment.
So, it's fine.»«Look, these last, almost over a year and a half, have been really turbulent for me,» she says, «and so I have just worked very hard to continue to tell my story, my truth, and basically shout it from the rooftops. And it felt like a lot of times I haven't been heard, or didn't want to be heard.
And I think that that's what you'll see this season.»Erika is back for season 12 of , her seventh as a cast member, which picks up just weeks after Erika and her co-stars sat down for a tense, four-part reunion that played out almost like a deposition for the «Pretty Mess» singer. She faced hours of questioning about her estranged husband, Tom Girardi's, alleged wrongdoings, most notably a civil case (which also named Erika) involving missing settlement money intended for the widows and orphans of the victims of a 2018 airplane crash.
Tom is accused embezzling the funds, and the state of California disbarred him after an investigation into his law practice, which ultimately went bankrupt and ceased operations. He's currently living in a under a conservatorship, overseen by his brother. «My hands were really tied, and I said all that I could,» Erika says of
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